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Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

One mistake at the crime scene ruined the whole case.m

Police Off The Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

Law Enforcement, Crime, True Crime, Military

4.4870 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

One mistake at the crime scene ruined the whole case Did critical mistakes at the Nancy Guthrie crime scene cost investigators their best chance to solve the case quickly? In this episode of Police Off the Cuff, retired NYPD Sgt. Bill Cannon breaks down the evidence, the early decisions, and the crime-scene errors that may have changed the direction of the entire investigation. This is a hard-hitting true-crime analysis of what went wrong, what may have been missed, and why those first hours matter most.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Absolutely. Summer at summer, summer at 8952, but the sheriff cleared the house after day one, like he should. It was a crime scene, but he didn't do a good job.

0:11.5

You needed to put crime scene tape around the perimeter of the house and kick the press his ass back 500 feet. They were all over it.

0:18.4

It was like they were like ants crawling over the crime scene.

0:21.2

It was ridiculous. You know, look, I'll tell you a little, a quick little story. During 9-11,

0:26.8

which myself, Mike and Phil Grimaldi, we all responded to, right? And maybe a day, two, three days

0:33.4

after 9-11, there were trespassers all over the place there were people going into ground zero to

0:39.0

commit crimes and finally the police department was like what the hell are we doing how are we allowing

0:44.7

people to walk into the inner perimeter of the biggest crime scene in the history of mankind after that

0:51.4

they even locked up press press was sneaking onto the pile and i remember there was

0:57.1

i'll even mention his name his name was vincentry he worked for channel seven he got locked up

1:01.9

for for trespassing onto the pile so you have to control these situations if you don't people

1:09.9

will control you and it's no joke. And in

1:13.0

this, they lost control immediately. When I saw the drones above this crime scene and saw the

1:18.9

amount of press there, I was like, how ridiculous is this? This is absolutely ridiculous that

1:25.0

they're allowing these people to walk all over the damn property of

1:29.4

Nancy Guthrie and on the crime scene. That is part of the crime scene. And it just occurred

1:35.8

to him on day 26 that maybe we should get the press as vehicles to hell out of there and not

1:41.0

allow anyone to park on the street. So if they do, they get a $250 fine.

1:45.5

And the press, they really think they're entitled with their little press credentials.

1:49.4

Oh, we can park anywhere.

1:51.1

No, you cannot.

1:52.9

And someone, a strong police boss should have kicked their asses out of their day one.

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